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Biodiversity in EIA and SEA : background document to CBD decision VIII/28: voluntary guidelines on biodiversity-inclusive impact assessment

Available Online

Slootweb, Roel

The CBD, the Ramsar Convention and the CMS recognise impact assessment as an important tool to ensure that development is planned and implemented with biodiversity 'in mind'. The CBD requires parties to apply impact assessment to projects, programmes, plans and policies with a potential negative impact on biodiversity. Considerable progress has been made in strengthening impact assessment as a tool to further the aims of the CBD and related conventions. However, practise shows that more work is needed.

Guidelines for the rapid ecological assessment of biodiversity in inland water, coastal and marine areas

Available Online

Secretariat to the Ramsar Convention

These guidelines have been produced through an extensive consultation process involving inputs from a large number of specialists. They are prepared in response to requests of the Conference of the Parties to both the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and Ramsar Convention. They are designed as a suite of optional tools to assist those with urgent need and/or limited capacity and resources to undertake, where necessary, rapid inventories, assessment and monitoring of the biological diversity of inland water, coastal and near-shore marine ecosystems. They focus largely at species level considerations (i.e., assessments of taxa) but also include some tools relevant for assessment at the habitat/ecosystem level. Guidelines to assess the socioeconomic and cultural aspects of the value of biodiversity in these ecosystems are being developed to complement the current methods and will be published separately. The guidelines should be seen as additional means of obtaining information to that already held through existing and local knowledge which should be assessed, and used, as the first step in any survey.

Land, customs and practice in the South Pacific

Biodiversity Conservation

Kingdon Elizabeth

Ward Gerard R. (eds)

Redefining the Pacific? : regionalism past, present and future / edited by Jenny Bryant-Tokalau and Ian Frazer

Frazer Ian

Tokalau, Jenny Bryant

Handbook of Australian, New Zealand & Antartic birds Volume 7 : Boatbill to Starlings

Cowling Sidney J

Higgins Peter Jeffrey (eds)

Peter, John M.

new zealand

Design for sustainability : a practical approach for developing economies

Available Online

Crul Dr. M.R.M.

Diehl J.C.

Companies all over the world increasingly need to innovate their products and processes to: keep up with competitive pressure; increase productivity within the region or worldwide; defend or expand market share; and to create the ability to attract foreign investments. However, companies in developing economies can be left out of this cycle for a variety of economic and structural reasons.

Conservation is our government now : the politics of ecology in Papua New Guinea / Paige West

West Paige

papua new guinea

Plant identification : creating user friendly field guides for biodiversity management / Anna Lawerence and William Hawthorne

Lawerence Anna

A Reef Manager's Guide to Coral Bleaching

Biodiversity Conservation

Available Online

Marshall, Paul

Schuttenberg, Heidi

The need for a management response to mass coral bleaching is now well established. The incidence and severity of mass coral bleaching events has increased continuously over the last two decades. As a result, almost every reef region in the world has now suffered extensive stress or coral mortality. Observations of these past impacts and studies of expected future trends have prompted leading researchers and managers to declare that coral reefs are in crisis. In keeping with this, the scientific community has suggested that the impacts of mass coral bleaching events, in combination with those from chronic local stressors, will largely determine the condition of coral reefs in the next 50 years.

Global change and integrated coastal management : the Asia-Pacific region

Biodiversity Conservation

Harvey Nick

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